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I just found out that a de Tomaso Pantera raced in the British GT Championshiop from 1994 to 1997. ADA Engineering and Superpower Engineering ran the cars. Looks like you have a place to race your car!

Pete

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Ron is presently in the Hospital recovering from his cancer surgery. Meanwhile Harry is taking care of the store on Monday through Friday. Meanwhile Jeff takes car of the store on Saturdays from 10 AM to 3 PM. I would like to wish Ron to get well soon from his surgery.

If enough racers showed up on Mondays early enough in the next couple weeks, Harry might be persuaded to stay until about 8 PM at the latest. Harry indicated that in Mid-July that he would be going on a planned vacation for 3 weeks and that the shop would be closed up then unless Ron felt better by then. Harry said that he would probably close up the shop on Tuesday's and Thursdays early since there was hardly anybody coming in then except for a few candy customer's in the late afternoons.

This last Friday there was no racing at Ace Hobbies as there was only myself, Pete, Art, and Kevin as racers when I decided that I was leaving at about 5:30 PM after being there since about 1:15. So unless someone showed up later before Harry closed up, there wasn't going to be any racing. So if we wish to convince Harry to stay open later on Monday night, the racers who want to race on Monday should show up before 5 PM.

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Perhaps you could phone, and let Harry know that you plan on coming to race; maybe by 2:00 PM.

That way, a feel for the prospective attendance could be gathered.

Just as importantly, the people who drive long distances to race could call Harry back (after 2:00 PM) and see what the attendance might look like.
Then, they could make their final decision whether to come, or not (Letting Harry know). Any prospective driver could call back, for that matter.

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Hello all you racing fans!!!!
i would like all of you to know that WE WILL BE RACING this Friday night.... all are welcome to come and I hope to see everyone. Please spread the word!!!!!
i didn’t forget you Monday guys either..... I’m still trying to work something out for Monday night racing coverage...

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It was Friday and hot in the city of Niagara Falls. My name’s Thursday. I was working the no-mag division at Ace Hobby. The Boss is F.Ron , but he’s just home from the hospital and we all wish him the speediest of recoveries so things at the station will get back to normal.

NOTE: Young Tony made another appearance and behaved in an exemplary manner both on the track and off, setting a fine example for the rest of us... who pretty much ignored it.

Trans Am in which there was a great deal of sliding around most probably due to the accumulation of dust and such during the recent period of inactivity.

Al seemed to be having a problem during the evening with color correlation. The 4 lanes here at Ace are color coded. Red, Yellow, Blue, and White. Each car has a colored sticker affixed to it that corresponds to the lane it is running on (Red, Yellow, Blue, or White again). The purpose of these stickers is to alert the turn marshals as to which lane the car should be returned to should it deslot. On a couple of occasions, Al seemed to feel that these stickers were “guidelines” rather than strict indicators. It may have been an artistic conflict such as the color of the car clashing with the color of the lane, but Blue seemed to be a particular non-favorite.

So let us close this update with thanks to our host and hall monitor in absentia, F.Ron !! Get back on your feet soon!
Thanks to Joe for stepping up in F.Ron's absence and making it possible to continue while he's indisposed.
Thanks to Steve for the computer work and tech.

New GT2: 8.893, Chris
79.30, Chris, 6/17/19
78.95. Alex, 3/19/18 (as GTA)
78.90, Chris, 9/11/17 (as GTA)NOTE: There has been only one race held under the new, combined GT rules. The records above reflect the fastest time and the highest lap totals recorded for old GT2s, GTAs, and new GT2s.

Friend Brian will be manning the bridge of USS Ace on Mondays. Our other friend Joe (yes, we have at least two) will have the Friday night watch. Jeff (WOW, that's three) is still the man on Saturday. I have no info on the Wednesday scene.
Many thanks to these responsible and upstanding guys .